Watch-guard.



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WATCH GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED 1 Eo.11".` 190e.

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ALFRED SCHNEIDER,

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or NEw YORK, N. Y.

WATCH-GUARD'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 190'?.

Ammann flied December 11,1906. serai No. 347.337.

Beit known that I, ALFRED SCHNEIDER, a subject of the German Emperor,and a resident oi the city oi New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improvedlatch-Guard, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention has for its object to provide means adapted to prevent awatch from 'falling out of the pocket of a wearer or being removedtherefrom without his knowledge.

Such objects I accomplish by the means illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which drawings like characters of reierence indicate likeparts throughout the views, and in which- Figure l is a iront elevationoi a device embodying my invention applied to a watch having a chainconnected therewith. Fig, 2 is a side elevation of the device shown inFig. l with the watch arranged within a pocket, and Fig. 3 is a plan ofthe device shown in `Figs. 1 and 2 detached from the watch.

rAs illustrated in the drawings, a watch 1 is provided with a bow 2,which is pivotally mounted upon a stem 3. A chain 4 is attached to thebow 2 of the watch and may be attached to the buttonhole of the wearer,or the chain may be oi the ordinary fob construction. A guard isattached to the bow of the watch and consists of a yoke having oppositely-disposed clamping-arms 5, adapted to clamp the bow of thewatch and i'rictional arms 6, secured to the clamping-arms and spacedapart forming an intermediate aperture 7, which is adapted to receivethe bow and stem of the watch. The Jrictional arms 6 are provided withedges of any suitable construction adapted to have clinging contact withan engaging surface, such as the lining of a pocket. To this end Iprefer to provide the i'rictional arms with non-nietallic edges 8, whichmay be made of rubber or other material adapted to cling to any engagingsurface forming the interior of a pocket. The frictional arms 6 arepreferably connected with the clamping-arms 5, so as to extend at aninclination to the plane of said clamping-arms, as illustrated in Fig.2, thereby enabling the frictional arms to obtain a better hold on theinterior of a pocket and resist the withdrawal of the Watch to a greaterextent than if the arms extended at a right angle to the plane of theclampingarms. While I prefer to extend the frictional arms at aninclination to the plane of the clamping-arms, such construction is notessential to my invention, as the i'rictional arms may, if desired, beextended at a right angle to the plane of the clamping-arms.

In the construction herein shown and described the irictional arms 6 areconstructed of parallel plates extending in straight lines, and therebyadapted to provide a maximum frictional surface arranged within thesmallest possible compass; but while I prefer such construction incarrying out my invention I do not desire to be limited thereto, as theshape or contour of the frictional arms may be modified to suit thefancy of the user. The clamping-arms 5, as shown herein, con'- sist ofside bars 5, spaced apart so as to form apertures 5b and connected atintervals by means of bridges 5C. Such construction is not essential tomy invention, however, which embodies, broadly, clamping-arms of anysuitable construction adapted to be attached to the bow of a watch andconnected with frictional arms adapted to cling to an engaging surface.The clamping-arms 5 are made of any suitable material having thenecessary resiliency to permit the clampingarms to be snapped onto thebow of a watch, and the interior surface of said arms is curved tocorrespond with the outward curvature of the watch-bow, so as to preventlateral displacement of said arms on the bow.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

l. A watclnguard having clamping-arms curved longitudinally andtransversely adapted to be attached to the bow of a watch, andfrictional arms connected to said clamping-arms, substantially as shownand described. 1

2. A watch-guard having a yoke curved longitudinally and transversely,adapted to be secured to the bow of a watch by spring tension, andoppositely disposed parallel frictional arms connected with said yoke,substantially as shown and described.

3. A watch-guard having a yoke curved longitudinally and transversely,adapted to be attached to a bow of a watch, and parallel arms spacedapart and connected with said yoke, substantially as shown anddescribed.

4. A watch-guard having a yoke curved longitudinally and transverselyadapted to be attached to the bow of a watch, and frictional outeredges, substantially as shown tional members connected to said yokeproand described. s vided with yielding material7 substantially Intestimony whereof I have signed my as shown and described. name to thisspecification in the presence of 5 5. A watch-guard having a yoke curvedtwo subscribing witnesses.

lonofitudinally and transversely adapted to be 1 1 attched to the bow ofa watchxand rictional ALB RED SCHNEIDER' members connected with saidyoke and /Vitnesses:

adapted to be arranged on opposite sides ol' ROBERT W. HARDiE,

1o the stem of a Watch and provided with fric- EVERARD B. lNMRsHALL.

